After almost three years in the making, the finished inventory of our first book “Rack Toys, Cheap, Crazed Playthings” have arrived at the Mantooth Warehouse. I am pleased to announce it’s available to order from the PlaidStallions store right now. If you buy through us you’ll get three exclusive Rack Toys post cards, however, the book […]
I’ve never heard of Pied Piper Stores, not surprising, as I didn’t grow up in California in the 1970s. No doubt they were one of the many “Mom and Pop” toy store chains that at one magical time dotted our landscape. One thing i do know is that Pied Piper stores had a pretty grasp […]
And don’t you *&%^ing forget it! Nothing in this life, did I loathe more than that prerequisite itchy V neck sweater from an Aunt and Uncle. I have never been more honest in saying “You shouldn’t have”…
Ever wonder what makes Santa tick? Wonder no more, rip ol’ Saint Nick apart and spend hours playing with his magical (possibly delicious but definitely non toxic, so dig in!) guts.
Any Christmas catalog worth it’s ilk has a stocking stuffers section, a glossary of lower priced and unrelated items that are “just perfect”. I personally own the skeleton bank about and am totally eyeing that cow creamer. More perfect last minute gifts after the jump: Ah, the Playboy puzzle, nothing says yuletide more than puzzles […]
Hey, even Santa has a budget and shoving a cheap-o rack toy into your stocking is a time honoured, fun tradition. There’s nothing particularly Christmassy about what’s inside the display but it didn’t matter. I’ve put together a collage of different Christmas dump bins (I’ll always giggle when typing that word) from the shag decade. […]
Let’s kick the week off right with a sampling of Santa suits and other bric a brac from the era when I knew he was real. I will say that suits like captain eyebrows above, give me the willies. It probably has to do with a childhood viewing of “Tales from the Crypt”, not the […]
Seeing as this blog is pretty much a celebration of 70s Christmas catalogues, it seems only fitting to make the entirety of next week a Texas sized helping of all the things that make Christmas what it is. So get ready for mountains of itchy sweaters, gaudy ornaments, plastic Santas, strange stocking stuffers and more cardboard chimneys […]
I gave up writing a weekly list for Topless Robot, in order to finish writing Rack Toys. I will admit to missing it from time to time, so I’m going to keep fresh by churning out the odd one for PlaidStallions. One of the things children of the 1970s were witness to was the birth […]
How ABC didn’t see how a Dolly Parton/Wonder Woman team up wasn’t ratings gold I’ll never know.
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